Background
Al-Zawahiri, Ayman Mohammed Rabie was born on June 19, 1951 in Maadi, Egypt. Son of Rabi'a and Umayma Azzam al Zawahiri.
international terrorist physician
Al-Zawahiri, Ayman Mohammed Rabie was born on June 19, 1951 in Maadi, Egypt. Son of Rabi'a and Umayma Azzam al Zawahiri.
Graduate, Cairo University, 1974. M degree in surgery, Cairo University, 1978.
Joined the Muslim Brotherhood, 1965. Joined the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, dedicated to the overthrow of the secular government in Egypt, 1979. Arrested and sentenced to prison on a weapons possession charge in the wake of the assassination of President Anwar Sadat.
Egypt, 1981—1984; traveled to Peshwar, Pakistan to treat Mujahadeen wounded from the war in Afghanistan, meets Osama Bin Laden, 1986. Travels to Sudan after the end of the Soviet-Afghan war, 1990. Becomes head of Egyptian Islamic Jihad, 1993.
Detained in Russia for six months after allegedly recruiting Muslims in Chechnya, 1996. Indicted for his alleged role in the August 7 bombings of the United States embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya, 1998. Issued the joint fatwa "World Islamic Front Against Jews and Crusaders" with Osama Bin Laden, 1998.
Sentenced to death in absentia by an Egyptian military tribunal for his role in terrorist operations by Egypt's Islamic Jihad, 1999. Linked to United States Ship Cole bombing in Yemen, killing 17 Americans, October 12, 2000. Al-Zawahiri formally merges Egyptian Islamic Jihad with Osama Bin-Laden's Al-Qaeda group, 2001.
Linked to September 11th attacks in New York City, Washington Distric. & Shanksville, PA, killing at least 2992 civilians, 2001. Generally considered to be the second highest ranking member of al-Qaeda and its top strategist.
Married Azza Ahmed Nuwair al-Zawahiri, 1979. 4 children.